The Rhode Islander

From Texas,—Galveston and Houston dates to the 26th ult. were received at New Orleans on the 28th. Their contents are not important. No business had been done by the Legislature at Washington up to the 19th instant, a quorum of members to either house not having arrived.

The late accounts from the West are somewhat contradictory. By some the army is represented to be cheerful and ready to march; others say that many are disposed to return home, on account of the lateness of the season.

They are about fifteen hundred strong, and are encamped at Medina, some twenty miles beyond San Antonio. There is a plentiful supply of beef and corn in the camp. Much aid is anticipated from the Camanches and Apaches, in case of an invasion of Mexico, should the treaties which are now in progress with these tribes be satisfactorily concluded. Flaco a warrior of the Lipan tribe, with about seventy warriors, is now with the army at the West.

From information to which the editor of the Galveston Times has had access, he is of opinion that the diplomatic intervention of both the United States government and that of England will prove unavailing in bringing Mexico to terms of peace with Texas.

The arrival of Gen. A. Sidney Johnston has been hailed in Texas as an event calculated to inspire confidence.

The expense of the Foreign Ministers of the Republic are $21,000. The salaries of the President and all his cabinet ministers amount to only $10,500; the expenses of Congress $15,220. The first item is objected to as extravagantly unequal to the resources of the country.